Created attachment 387633[details]
Add "whitelist" and "config action_log" directives to modprobe
The attached patch adds whitelist support to modprobe. It is the same set of changes as the patches sent for upstream adoption, rebased against module-init-tools-3.11.1-2.fc13.

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Hi Jon, have you given this much more thought? The problem is not going away. We have a need to do a couple things. One is prevent surprise enablement. Meaning that you have hardware that does not have drivers and you wanted to prevent the device's use to begin with. But then one day the kernel is updated and by surprise the device is now functional. This is important for things like: web cam, microphone, wireless network, USB devices, Firewire devices, network protocols, or file systems (I'm sure there are more).
The other is for security lockdown. We need to be able to prevent loading of certain modules in a way that is future-proof or in other words not susceptible to surprise enablement. F-18 is in development, so maybe we can do the experimenting now? Thanks.

(In reply to comment #8)
> Hi Jon, have you given this much more thought? The problem is not going
> away.
In the mean time, module-init-tools were replaced by kmod in Fedora. I haven't checked how much rewriting would the patch need.

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